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by twincitizen
March 29th, 2013, 5:28 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - North, Northeast, and Southeast / University of Minnesota
Topic: The Venue at Dinkytown - (14th Avenue SE & 5th Street SE)
Replies: 568
Views: 69712

Re: House of Hanson Site (14th Avenue SE & 5th Street SE)

If your city council member is in attendance it's all the more important -- they need to see there are people who support good proposals for development. This is part of the reason Minneapolis Urbanists for Political Action was started. The short-term goal may be to get involved in the 2013 municip...
by twincitizen
March 29th, 2013, 5:17 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92652

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

I agree that Snelling is a great candidate for the first aBRT route. The 84 will likely see a bump in ridership in the first year of Green Line service anyways. Planners will then be able to compare that with the increase in ridership from moving to aBRT in 2015. As a rider, I'd take increased frequ...
by twincitizen
March 29th, 2013, 12:20 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92652

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

That's true. I don't ride the 54 or 84, so I have no idea what the current ridership on those routes is like. For some reason, I've always pictured aBRT as articulated buses, but with 10-minute headways and improved on-time performance, that probably isn't necessary unless we see massive ridership g...
by twincitizen
March 29th, 2013, 10:31 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92652

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

In an attempt to get this bus back on schedule, and for those who aren't nerdy enough to read through those Met Council documents, I clipped the relevant portion of the CMAQ aBRT grants. Note: this doesn't mean that those aBRT lines will begin operation in 2015 & 2016, just that the funds will b...
by twincitizen
March 28th, 2013, 5:36 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92652

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

Because everybody knows that Metro Transit can't do squat without buy-in from the local community. For Hennepin to have seriously improved transit, there will be impacts to on-street parking AND traffic flow. That will require the support of a councilmember that is on board and understands the impor...
by twincitizen
March 28th, 2013, 2:14 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: MCAD & Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Replies: 15
Views: 3435

Re: MCAD

There's a typo on there, it should read 2726 and 2728 Stevens Avenue, not Colfax Avenue. They get it right on page 2.
by twincitizen
March 28th, 2013, 2:03 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92652

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

As soon as we elect a councilmember who cares passionately about improving transit between Uptown and Downtown. Lisa Bender has specifically stated that she will be an advocate for Hennepin. If you live in Ward 10, I urge you to join several other UrbanMSP'ers in supporting her campaign by participa...
by twincitizen
March 28th, 2013, 12:50 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92652

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

I just skimmed the addendum to the aBRT study, where the Chicago BRT line was expanded to included the entire Route 5 Chicago-Fremont corridor and Penn Ave BRT was added (both of these things happened in response to the Bottineau alignment decision). http://www.metrotransit.org/Data/Sites/1/media/pd...
by twincitizen
March 28th, 2013, 11:54 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Corridors
Replies: 434
Views: 92652

Re: Arterial Transit Corridor Study ("rapid bus")

Met Coucil has amended the 2013-16 Transpo Improvement Program (TIP) to include: $8.8 million for limited stop transit service on Chicago and Portland avenues in Minneapolis and Richfield, and American Blvd. in Bloomington $7.5 million for limited stop transit service in St. Paul and Maplewood I'm ...
by twincitizen
March 28th, 2013, 11:34 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Hennepin & Lyndale Bottleneck Project
Replies: 306
Views: 38298

Hennepin & Lyndale Bottleneck Project

3/2014 Update: Project website http://www.hennepinlyndaleproject.com/index.html If you didn't know, the Hennepin-Lyndale bottleneck atop the Lowry Tunnel used to be known as The Virginia Triangle . Much has been written about it on this forum as well as on Streets.mn Read through the comments on the...
by twincitizen
March 28th, 2013, 11:07 am
Forum: 2013 Minneapolis Municipal Election
Topic: Mayoral Race
Replies: 384
Views: 84486

Re: Mayoral Race

Mark Andrew sounds like a gayer RT Rybak, but I generally liked what he had to say. I thought it was a 3-way tie between Andrew, Hodges, and Schiff. Samuels and Cherryhomes are complete jokes.
by twincitizen
March 28th, 2013, 11:03 am
Forum: Minneapolis - South, Southwest, and Uptown
Topic: Five15 on the Park - 515 15th Avenue South
Replies: 187
Views: 46479

Re: Five15 On the Park - (1515 5th St S)

Unbelievable. The "green space" is a ragged broken glass filled lot. Don't these folks know Currie Park is across the street? This vacant lot (Five15 on the Park) is private property anyways. This appeal should have no standing and I'm fairly confident the Council will deny it. It would be...
by twincitizen
March 27th, 2013, 5:06 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1388
Views: 603557

Re: Street, Road, and Highway Projects

The east-of-the-river portion of the work might get underway in 2013, but Hennepin County's website clearly states that the 4th St entrance ramp project won't begin until 2014.
by twincitizen
March 27th, 2013, 3:32 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701247

Re: Transit News and Happenings

I'm sure you can find tons of examples on crosstown routes 2, 21, 23, 46, and 515 where they stop at two consecutive short-side blocks. The standard is every other short-side block, or ~660', but there are far too many abberations where it winds up stopping at two in a row. On of my old pet peeves w...
by twincitizen
March 27th, 2013, 2:52 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Replies: 1388
Views: 603557

Re: Transit News and Happenings

Are you talking about the NB 35W entrance from the 3rd/4th St trench, between the Dome and West Bank Station? I'm guessing we discussed that in the 35W thread or CCLRT, but that's a Hennepin County project rather than MNDOT, and has been pushed to 2014: http://www.hennepin.us/portal/site/HennepinUS/...
by twincitizen
March 27th, 2013, 2:29 pm
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Green Line Extension - Southwest LRT
Replies: 5265
Views: 1246764

Re: Southwest Corridor (Green Line Extension)

Let's pretend for a moment that Dan Patch is a remote possibility and Orange Line BRT isn't "concrete poured over its coffin" as one poster suggested. For what it's worth, there was actually a bill brought up in the MN Legislature this session to repeal prohibition of saying the words &quo...
by twincitizen
March 27th, 2013, 9:28 am
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: The Paxon - (324 First Street North)
Replies: 115
Views: 32280

Re: Former Reserve Site - (324 First Street North)

Check out the comment from that liberalelite guy, referencing Sam Newberg's "Failure of Frontage". We need to get him on urbanMSP!
by twincitizen
March 27th, 2013, 9:10 am
Forum: Transportation
Topic: Public Transit News / Current Events (MN only)
Replies: 2909
Views: 701247

Re: Transit News and Happenings

The bus stop on westbound Lake at Nicollet (Kmart driveway) has FINALLY been eliminated. The dilapidated 3rd-party shelter is still in place, with a multitude of those lovely "Buses Don't Stop Here" signs. We'll see how long it takes Minneapolis/CBS Outdoor to actually remove it. Of course...
by twincitizen
March 26th, 2013, 6:21 pm
Forum: Minneapolis - Downtown
Topic: North Loop Salvation Army
Replies: 31
Views: 7716

Re: North Loop Salvation Army

So this proposed new building does not contain a retail Salvation Army store as the current one does? The store seems like the one aspect of this that could be an asset, rather than a further detriment to the Lind-Bohanon neighborhood.
by twincitizen
March 26th, 2013, 5:56 pm
Forum: Anything Goes
Topic: Why is St Paul so Sleepy?
Replies: 14
Views: 1464

Re: Why is St Paul so Sleepy?

It's all true. Besides being walled off by the river, railroad, and freeways, downtown Saint Paul is also ringed/blocked by huge public and quasi-public entities including the Xcel, Science Museum, History Center, Cathedral, hospitals, and soon the Saints stadium on the east end. While those things ...